Expect to see more of this

Somebody anonymously calls the police (from a payphone!) and claims his roommate is about to go shoot up the Yale campus. Yup, it’s a hoax. Or rather, the trolls well know that the police are but a tool in their hands to engage in real-life lulz. Why not, when one anonymous phone call means they can lock down portions of a city and cause everyone to cower in fear like terrified rabbits while the police sweep the area? (Nevermind that lockdown is completely ineffective – the Boston bomber was found by a random citizen, not the police.)

Hackers, trolls, and students who want a really good excuse for skipping class can now effectively declare martial law and have it backed up by police with military-grade weaponry.

Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave! Hah!

I wonder how many of these incidents are going to happen before Boy Who Cried Wolf kicks in? At the very least, police should treat any anonymous payphone calls as hoaxes from the beginning. I mean really, does anyone honestly think that there is a SINGLE PERSON at YALE who doesn’t have a cell phone?!